Essay On Interprofessional Education

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Does Interprofessional Simulation Education (IPSE) have a place in the medical undergraduate curriculum?
Introduction.
Health care is a team process (Wall, 2000).
From the start it is important to acknowledge that how we deliver medical education is changing. Historically a lot of the education would have happened within the ward environment but with the growing change in healthcare delivery, such as patient stays shortening, and care being provided by the primary healthcare team in the patient’s own home, students do not have the opportunity to practice skills in the ward environment (McGaghie et al., 2016). As educators we need to change and expand our ways of delivery of education so that outcomes can be met. I decided to explore the research on Interprofessional Simulation Education (IPSE) in the medical undergraduate …show more content…

One definition of simulation is “The techniques of imitating behaviour by means of a suitable analogous situation or apparatus, especially for study or personal training” (Moore, Green and Gallis, 2009). Interprofessional Education (IPE) has been defined as an occasion when two or more professionals learn together during all or part of their professional training with the object of cultivating collaborative practice for providing patient centred care (CAIPE, 2018).
As educators in the teaching of undergraduate medicine, we have used various forms of simulation for nearly 50 years. Although this is not new, it has only been over the last 15 years that simulation has become common practice in teaching and in assessment. Like simulation, Interporfessional education in the medical curriculum is not a new concept, with educators recognising the need to teach and facilitate this within the curriculum. The main aim of any interprofessional education in health care must be to improve the quality of care and patient safety (Thistlethwaite,

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